How Local Citations Works & Link Building | Local Citations Sites List 2018

First, let me tell you what business citation is. The business citation is simply mentioned of your business or website on different local directories. Most of the time, it will feature your business name, business address, phone number and may include a link to your website.

Business citations are important because they are used by search engines to help this site how to rank businesses in the local search results.

Also, search engines and Google most pacifically use business citation to verify the accuracy of your business. So it is important that where ever your business is mentioned your business details are always the same.

The Question is where Do You Get Business Citations From?

Well, there are many places where you can get a citation from. But the best and easiest starting place is from online business directories such as Yell.com, Yelp, and ThomsonLocal etc.

Think of it as the modern version of the Yellowpages book you use to keep value full only now it’s online and the Yellowpages on the only source.

As a small business owner, you may have been harassed by some marketing agencies at some point. Promising to range your profile and increase to the visibility of your business in search engines in exchange for your monthly fee.

Guess what they do, they simply submit your business details to tons of directories every month and charge you for it.

What you must understand is that it is totally unnecessary. There are actually only about 20 to 30 directories that really matter depending on which country your business is located in.

Once you submitted your details to those you can focus on your marketing efforts.

So, what in agency come to hassle you for your business asks what they strategy is. Don’t be shy and let them give you as many details as possible. And if their strategy is only based on directory submissions tell them to show you find something good to say :).

The question you are now probably asking your self is what those directories are.

Remember I told I will provide everything you need, so you can find the list of directories below

Local Citation Sites List 2018

Sr.No

Citation Sites

DA

Sites Niche

1

facebook.com

100

General

2

Apple Maps

100

General

3

Google My Business

100

General

4

bing.com

98

General

5

foursquare.com

94

General

6

mapquest.com

94

General

7

yelp.com

94

General

8

yellowpages.com

89

General

9

angieslist.com

89

General

10

merchantcircle.com

85

General

11

yellowbook.com

83

General

12

manta.com

83

General

13

superpages.com

82

General

14

kudzu.com

75

General

15

local.com

72

General

16

local.botw.org

71

General

17

spoke.com

71

General

18

chamberofcommerce.com

69

General

19

hotfrog.com

67

General

20

communitywalk.com

67

General

21

2findlocal.com

66

General

22

company.com

66

General

23

brownbook.net

64

General

24

tupalo.com

63

General

25

ibegin.com

62

General

26

worldweb.com

56

General

27

where2go.com

56

General

28

citysquares.com

56

General

29

ezlocal.com

54

General

30

ebusinesspages.com

54

General

31

cylex-usa.com

53

General

32

getfave.com

53

General

33

bizhwy.com

52

General

34

lacartes.com

52

General

35

myhuckleberry.com

49

General

36

hub.biz

49

General

37

cityinsider.com

48

General

38

wand.com

47

General

39

n49.com

47

General

40

yelloyello.com

47

General

41

opendi.us

47

General

42

fyple.com

46

General

43

us.bizadee.com

46

General

44

callupcontact.com

45

General

45

mysheriff.net

45

General

46

smartguy.com

44

General

47

finduslocal.com

44

General

48

nexport.com

41

General

49

wowcity.com

41

General

50

wherezit.com

41

General

51

citylocal.co.uk

39

General

52

infoisinfo.co.uk

44

General

53

expressbusinessdirectory.com

43

General

54

searchme4.co.uk

43

General

55

b99.co.uk

43

General

56

barbourproductsearch.info

42

General

57

find-us-here.com

42

General

58

n49.com

42

General

59

whodoyou.com

42

General

60

tipped.co.uk

42

General

61

company.fm

41

General

62

tuugo.co.uk

40

General

63

uk.wowcity.com

40

General

64

parkbench.com

39

General

65

uk.ypgo.net

39

General

66

yellowpages.com.au

84

General

67

truelocal.com.au

70

General

68

yelp.com.au

62

General

69

wordofmouth.com.au

59

General

70

startlocal.com.au

58

General

71

aussieweb.com.au

43

General

72

localbd.com.au

41

General

73

australiaonlineadvertising.com.au

39

General

74

localbusinessguide.com.au

39

General

75

nationaldirectory.com.au

39

General

76

businesszoom.com.au

37

General

77

cibd.ca

19

General

78

411directoryassistance.ca

24

General

79

cdnpages.ca

31

General

80

opendi.ca

31

General

81

mysheriff.ca

32

General

Local Business Citation Rules and Guidelines

It is important you to keep track of which directories you have submitted your business details to with login details you have used to create an account.

Imagine if you changed your phone number or the address of your business what will happen. You have to revisit each one of those directories to update your business details. And if you do not remember in which directory you have listed your business you will end up with inaccurate listings across the web which could damage your ranking. This leads me to my last point

Accuracy and Consistency of your Business Citations

As you start building business citation you will find out that it can quickly get out of hands if you are not careful and there is a risk of making mistakes.

The best to avoid this is as I mentioned, to keep track of the details you have submitted in excel spreadsheet. Although this manual process, it does work.

The other solution is to use another tool MOZ.com/local.

Enter your business name and your postcode and click on check my business listing. If you created a Google my business profile you should see your business listed here as verified. Click on it, on the next screen you will able to see where your business is listed and if there is any inaccuracy, duplicate listing or if the listing is incomplete. It is the fair representation of how well you doing across the web.

I would recommend using a combination of both manual process and using the MOZ tool for optimum efficiency.

Now it’s up to you implement everything I have recommended and I promise you will see a difference in a matter of weeks.

As promised there is absolutely zero cost involved in anything I have advised. It only takes time and anybody can do it.

The final world this is only a tiny part of how you can best market your business online. But it will give you a solid foundation from which you can build upon.

Please let me know how you are getting on or if you have any question please ask in a comment section.